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Ex-MP sentenced to 18 months in jail in wheat scam

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KABUL (Pajhwok): Nazar Mohammad Faqiri, a former senator, has been sentenced to one year and six months in jail and fined 1,214,000 afghanis over embezzlement of hundreds of tons of wheat.

The Supreme Court in a statement said the primary court of the Anti-Corruption Justice Center (ACJC) handed down the verdict in an open hearing on Saturday.

The source said the prosecutor office had accused NazarMohammad Faqiri of embezzlement of 204 tons of what.

According to the source, both sides to the case were present at the hearing and Nazar Mohammad Faqiri was sentenced to one year . . .

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